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of fishing. Salmon-trout, running up to fifteen pounds, though not 

 frequent, are sometimes killed. Fly-fishing is occasionally employed, 

 but less successfully. Trout streams are rare in Euro- 

 pean Russia ; not so in the Caucasus, where almost Trout 



in the 

 every mountain torrent contains fish. In the Laba and Caucasus 



Zelentchouk rivers I have caught over one hundred 



and fifty in a day, averaging half a pound. Being less sophisti- 



